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   Henrik Johan Ibsen began writing seriously in 1848 and wrote his first play in 1849. He was twenty-one. Because of family misfortunes, Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed as an apothecary at age sixteen and moved from Skien, Norway, to Grimstad where he had a wish to enroll in the university to study medicine. It was in Grimstad, inspired by the 1848 European revolutions, that Ibsen began to write seriously, composing satire and poetry. He was about twenty years old (born 1828).
   
   The next year, when he was twenty-one, Ibsen moved to the capital, Christiania, where he wrote Catiline (1849), his first play in blank verse on a Roman theme. Then in 1951, his writings in poetry, literary analysis and criticism led to a contract with the newly formed National Theater in Bergen. He was the theater manager and writer. It was here that he wrote St. John's Night (1952) and other plays. He moved to Italy in 1864 and that is where some of his most famous social commentary plays were written, including The Dolls House.

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   Posted by kplhardison on Friday November 6, 2009 at 9:17 AM